EW has the details:
Forty-two hardcore Divergent fans were treated to a nice
surprise on Thursday in Austin, Texas, when star Theo James (who plays
brave and brooding Tobias Eaton, or Four, alongside Shailene Woodley’s
Tris) surprised them at the Alamo Drafthouse. The fearless pack of fans,
who’d gathered to participate in a field trip event testing their
Dauntless potential, were stunned when the British actor showed up to
wish them courage on their adventure. They were preparing to depart on a
bus for Cypress Canopy Tours, where they’d test their own initiate
skills, from zip-lining to knife-throwing and hand-to hand combat.
Granted, this was an unlikely group of warriors—sweet tweens and their
moms, blushing women and a smattering of pale boyfriends, everybody in
new, black studio-supplied Divergent t-shirts. The evening of
fun chest-thumping would wrap up with a game of Capture the Flag and a
Dauntless-approved hamburger barbecue.

As for how to best weather their initiation rites, James advised, “If
anybody gets in your face, give them an elbow. Make sure at all times
you’re watching your back because you never know for sure who’s going to
come up and try to break your neck. No,” he said with a laugh, ” just
don’t kill yourselves. Shailene and I saw the movie last week and we
think you’re going to be really happy with it so don’t kill yourselves
with knives today.”

When asked what were his favorite stunts to do in the movie, James
told the eager crowd about the thrill of shooting the infamous ferris
wheel scene. “Shai and I we were up on the ferris wheel and the whole
crew was down on the ground and there were just a few cameras on
cranes,” he said. “So, it felt like we were actually doing it. It was
five in the morning on a beautiful spring Chicago night. And then the
big climax at the end during the fight sequence, I think at one point
there were seven guys I had to battle at once. It was a childhood
fantasy I have to say.”

When EW asked James if he’d ever participated in similar fandom like
Veronica Roth devotees, he said that when he was a child, growing up the
youngest of five, his family worshipped en masse The Lord of the Rings
series. “That was a massive thing in our family so when all the movies
came out we all went to see them on Christmas together,” he said. “We
always loved Aragorn from the books the best of course, because he’s a
legend.”

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